Our Day at the Mall

Okay, so where does the time go?? I will try and be better and maybe aim to post every Friday. Today we went to the mall to kill some time. It was raining here so we had to go look for indoor playtime. All of the malls here have big play areas -- not just arcade games. The mall closest to us even has a roller coaster and log flume water ride inside its play area. Too big for our little ones of course, but something to look forward to.

Today we ventured across town to go to Landmark Mall. We ate at the food court -- I had McDonald's, Mr. D had Subway (yes, he is the healthy one). And the girls had french fries of course. After we ate, we traveled the whole mall looking for a Hair Saloon for Mr. D. No that is not a misspelling. That is actually what they call them here. We believe they mean "Salon" but they all say "Saloon" instead. After we made a few trips around the mall, we finally asked a saleslady who looked like she might understand English--which she did--and she directed us to where it was at. But it was closed for another hour since Friday is the Holy Day here. So off to the play area we went.

The line for tokens was extremely long so we just walked around to see what type of things they had. There was no log ride or roller coaster, but they did have a big ball pit and a huge climb/tunnel thing which was very tall. It was safe, but I could see one of our girls getting to the top and not coming down until a parent retrieved them, so we passed on that. We finally settled on the carousel. Mr. D got tokens and to the carousel we went. I wasn't sure how the girls would like it, but they absolutely loved it. Of course we had no camera on hand. But I'm sure it won't be our last time there. Little N loved it so much that she went away kicking and screaming. She caused quite the ruckus, but it was short lived.

We then went to the grocery store--which is also located in the mall. (That takes some getting used to.) This particular grocery store is well known for having a lot of the American brands. So we got our Healthy Choice Turkey lunch meat, Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs, Pop Tarts, Pepperidge Farm cookies, Kellogg's cereal, and Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper and back to the "Saloon" we went. But only to find about 20 guys waiting in line -- so the haircut will have to wait for another day.

On the way home, we encountered several areas of roadway that were covered with water. Mr. D managed to get us safely through it, even with my intense protesting. (Hey, they always say not to cross areas where you don't know how deep it is... And that is just one of many things that we don't know about, like who do we call if we need a tow truck, how quick is their emergency response time, what if their roads are prone to sink holes, and so on and so on... I can't help it, that's just how my mind thinks.) What we do know is that this city can't handle much rainfall so thank goodness it's the desert. Anyway, we made it safely home to the compound-- so kudos to Mr. D, Super Dad and Driver, for getting us home safely.

Well, that's all for today. I'll do my best to post again next week.